William Scholes
Home Town: Chicago, IL
General Orders No. No. 140, W.D., 1918
The Distinguished Service Cross is presented to William Scholes, Sergeant, U.S. Army, for extraordinary heroism in action at Chipilly Ridge, France, August 10, 1918. When the advance of his platoon was suddenly halted by intense machine-gun fire at close range, wounding his platoon commander and other platoon sergeants, Sergeant Scholes showed splendid devotion to duty by personally manning a machine gun in the advance position and maintaining fire until the rest of the platoon had reached shelter.
